Kate MacCord

Program Administrator and McDonnell Foundation Fellow

MRC 313
kmaccord@mbl.edu

Education:
Arizona State University, PhD History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge, MPhil Human Evolutionary Studies
University of Pittsburgh, BPhil Anthropology

Research Statement:

As part of her dissertation research, Dr. Kate MacCord spent a year with the  of Jukka Jernvall at the University of Helsinki studying the development and evolution of teeth. This laboratory experience transformed her understanding of the scientific study of development and evolution, both currently and in the past. Kateיs research, which she conducts as the McDonnell Foundation Fellow, focuses on the history and philosophy of morphogenesisדhow embryos, tissues, and organs gain their characteristic forms. Kate doesnיt just work on tooth morphogenesis, but finds the study of how forms arise across all embryos fascinating.

In addition to being the McDonnell Foundation Fellow, Kate is also the Program Administrator for the James S. McDonnell Foundation-funded initiative at the MBL. This initiative seeks to bring researchers from history and philosophy of science (HPS) together with scientists in order to transform discovery. In order to facilitate this, the initiative funds workshops, working groups, and short-term fellowships.

Selected Publications:

MacCord, Kate and Maienschein, Jane. (April 2018) לWoods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory,ם In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.  DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0027989.

MacCord, Kate. לTracking Embryos Through Time: The Embryology Course at the MBL,ם In From the Beach to the Bench: Why Marine Biological Studies? Eds. Jane Maienschein, Karl Matlin, Rachel Ankeny. In press.

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein. לThe Historiography of Embryology and Developmental Biology,ם In The Historiography of Biology Eds. Michael Dietrich, Mark Borrello, Oren Harman. 2018. Springer Press.

Michael Dietrich, Mark Borrello, Oren Harman. Springer. In press.

Steinert, Beatrice, Kate MacCord. לVisualizing the Cell: Pictorial Styles and their Epistemic Goals in General Cytology,םI&Բ;Visions of Cell Biology: Reflections on Cowdryיs Cytology Eds. Karl Matlin, Jane Maienschein, Manfred Laubichler. 2018. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein. לCells, Development, and Evolution: Teeth at the Intersection of Fields,ם In The Darwinian Tradition in Context: Research Programs in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Ed. Richard Delisle. 2017. Springer Press.

Maienschein, Jane, Kate MacCord. לChanging Conceptions of Human Nature,ם In Frankenstein Eds. Jason Robert, Ed Finn, David Guston. 2017. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

MacCord, Kate, Guido Caniglia, Jacqueline E. MoustakasאVerho, and Ann C. Burke. לThe Dawn of Chelonian Research: Turtles between Comparative Anatomy and Embryology in the 19th Century.ם Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 324, no. 3 (2015): 169-180. DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22587

MacCord, Kate, לEndotheliumם. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2014-01-28). ISSN: 1940-5030 .

MacCord, Kate, לGerm Layersם. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-09-17). ISSN: 1940-5030 .

MacCord, Kate, לEpitheliumם. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2012-10-17). ISSN: 1940-5030 .

MacCord, Kate, לMesenchymeם. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2012-09-14). ISSN: 1940-5030 .